# Accountant - Stock & Ocado

**Company**: Morrisons
**Location**: Bradford, West Yorkshire
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

At Morrisons, we're more than just numbers – we're about driving real commercial success. This dynamic business partnering role is central to the profitability of our rapidly growing Online Business.

You will be responsible for full end-to-end P&L reporting and analysis, covering key cost areas with our partnership with Ocado including stock.

## Responsibilities

- Weekly cost reporting and analysis.

- Providing stakeholders with commentary on costs for the previous week.

- Month end preparation including the processing of journals and balance sheet reconciliations.

- Providing variance analysis and trending techniques to measure performance against budget, forecasts and business cases.

- Maintaining a high level of financial control within your area.

- Identifying financial risks and opportunities for departments, as well as areas to speed up and simplify.

- Developing and maintaining strong working relationships with colleagues across the site and the rest of the Finance team.

- Take a pivotal role in expediting the centralisation of controls and reporting, actively driving process improvements and laying the groundwork for a more efficient, future-proofed team structure.

## Qualifications

- You'll ideally be a qualified Accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA).

- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence at all levels.

- Previous experience working in a large complex organisation.

- Previous experience working in retail would be advantageous but not essential.

- A good understanding of trading and good commercial acumen.

- Attention to detail with the ability to prioritise and manage a varied workload to meet agreed deadlines.

## Reward & Benefits

We've highlighted below some of our standard Rewards & Benefits that our colleagues receive.

- Rewarding success

- Pay

- Colleague discounts

- Holidays

- Pension

- Life assurance

- Money off

- Flexible benefits

- Healthcare cash plan

- Wellbeing with Vita Health

- Aviva Digital GP and wellbeing

- Addiction treatment

- Salary finance

- Family Friendly benefits

## Skills

### Required
- financial analysis
- cost reporting
- budgeting
- forecasting
- financial control
- stakeholder management
- communication

### Nice to have
- CIMA
- ACCA
- ACA
- retail experience

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